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Anatomy of a Revolution: The Islamic Republic of Iran (Chaptered Work)
Iran captured the headlines and imaginations of many throughout the Muslim world and the West, so much so that many would come to view ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Contemporary Islam
Aniconism: The Absence of Figures (Chaptered Work)
It is often said that the depiction of living things is forbidden in Islamic art, but this is simply not true. The Quran has ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Art and Architecture
Apogee of the Caliphal Empire (700–950 c.e. ) (Chaptered Work)
The age of the first conquests and the civil wars (roughly 630–700 c.e .) had seen the establishment of the community of Believers as ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Muhammad and the Caliphate
The Arabic Sciences: Syntheses and New Creations (Chaptered Work)
By nature, theories that synthesize and supplant earlier knowledge have to be comprehensive and conceptually distinct, not just anomalies within the older systems of ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Science, Medicine, and Technology
The Arabic Translation of Greek Philosophical Texts (Chaptered Work)
It is significant that the first accredited Arabic translations of Greek philosophical texts correspond to the same Syriac tradition of logical scholarship, as attested ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Philosophy and Theology
Are all Muslims the same? (Chaptered Work)
Since we are more familiar with Christianity, we know without thinking that there is great diversity in Christianity. Christianity expresses itself in many forms ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter GENERAL INFORMATION
Are Sufis Muslims? (Chaptered Work)
Yes. Sufis belong to the mystical tradition of Islam known as Sufism. The name “Sufi” is derived from the Arabic word suf (wool), in ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter FAITH AND PRACTICE
Are there any divisions in Islam? (Chaptered Work)
As a world religion, Islam is practiced in diverse cultures in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and America. Differences in religious and cultural ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter FAITH AND PRACTICE
Are there any modern Muslim thinkers or reformers? (Chaptered Work)
Because acts of violence and terrorism grab the headlines, most of us know a lot more about advocates of a “clash,” militant jihadists, than ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter FAITH AND PRACTICE
Are women second-class citizens in Islam? (Chaptered Work)
The status of women in Muslim countries has long been looked to as evidence of “Islam's” oppression of women in matters ranging from the ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter CUSTOMS AND CULTURE
Art and Architecture (Chaptered Work)
All cultures throughout history have expressed themselves visually, and Islamic civilization was no exception. One need think only of oriental rugs, Persian miniatures, and ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam
The Art of Writing (Chaptered Work)
Writing is the most important theme to run through all Islamic art. The use of inscriptions is not unique to Islamic culture; the Islamic ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Art and Architecture
The Assault on Islamic Neoplatonism (Chaptered Work)
The flowering of Asharism in the tenth and eleventh centuries signaled the renewal of the struggle between the Neoplatonic philosophers, represented primarily by al-Farabi ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Philosophy and Theology
Astronomy (Chaptered Work)
Astronomy was one of the oldest, most developed, and most esteemed exact sciences of antiquity. Many of the mathematical sciences were originally developed to ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Science, Medicine, and Technology
The Beginning of Systematic Philosophical Writings (Chaptered Work)
Also during al-Mamun's reign, in addition to these translations (which formed the groundwork of Arabic-Islamic philosophy), the first genuine philosopher of Islam,Yaqub ibn Ishaq ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Philosophy and Theology
Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism (Chaptered Work)
IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA, teaching or writing about Islamic religion is inescapably caught up in political controversy. Everyone who has taught a class on ...
Source: Teaching Islam
The Caliphate as Agent of Political and Cultural Change (Chaptered Work)
The preceding pages have traced the simultaneous spread of the Islamic community from its origins to the thirteenth century and the rise and fall ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam; from chapter Muhammad and the Caliphate
Can Muslim men have more than one wife? (Chaptered Work)
The practice of polygamy, or more correctly polygyny (marriage to more than one wife), is a controversial subject in Islamic societies. Many modern Islamic ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter CUSTOMS AND CULTURE
Can Muslims marry non-Muslims? (Chaptered Work)
Marriage regulations in Islam revolve around concerns regarding the faith of the children who will result from the union. Marriage between a Muslim man ...
Source: What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam; from chapter CUSTOMS AND CULTURE
Central Asia and China (Chaptered Work)
During his 1994 visit to each of the newly established Central Asian states (except Tajikistan), Li Peng, then premier of China, indicated that China ...
Source: The Oxford History of Islam
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